First published 2018
Stella Grant has spent most of her life moving between hospital rooms. Her failing lungs need constant protection from infection if she wants to stay on the transplant list. She follows every rule, maintains every distance, controls what she can control. Then Will Newman arrives at the hospital. He hates his treatments and counts the days until he turns eighteen and can walk away from all the machines keeping him alive. Will represents everything dangerous to Stella. One shared breath could cost her the transplant. Either of them could die from contact. The hospital requires six feet of separation at all times. But as Stella and Will grow closer, that distance starts feeling less like safety and more like cruelty. They begin to wonder if they could reclaim just one foot of the space their broken bodies have stolen from them. Would five feet apart really threaten their lives if six feet apart is breaking their hearts?
Genres: romance, medical, young-adult, contemporary-romance, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
304 pages · Hardcover · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Content warnings: medical-trauma, terminal-illness